One of the most famous and controversial novels of the twentieth-century, Lolita by the Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov () is presented as prison confession of the protagonist Humbert Humbert, who recounts his pedophilic attraction for twelve-year old Lolita and their subsequent “affair.” First published in Paris by Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press in , the book was banned by . Vladimir Nabokov — Lolita 3 Foreword “Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates. “Humbert Hum-bert,” their author, had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November The author, as well as the girl he abducted— Lolita —are now dead. The former died of a heart attack while awaiting trial in prison, and the latter died in childbirth on Christmas Day. Both died in .
Uri Singer has obtained the rights "Invitation to a Beheading," a surrealist and politically charged work by Vladimir Nabokov, the author of "Lolita.". Singer has been carving out a niche. The best novels: No 75 - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov () Nabokov's tragicomic tour de force crosses the boundaries of good taste with glee Robert McCrum introduces the series. Vladimir Nabokov was born on the 22nd of April in the Russian Federation. An acclaimed author in Russian and English, Nabokov is most famous for his novel, 'Lolita'. Nabokov had a disrupted childhood.
One of the most famous and controversial novels of the twentieth-century, Lolita by the Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov () is presented as prison confession of the protagonist Humbert Humbert, who recounts his pedophilic attraction for twelve-year old Lolita and their subsequent “affair.” First published in Paris by Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press in , the book was banned by the French government a year later, on Decem. The author, as well as the girl he abducted— Lolita —are now dead. The former died of a heart attack while awaiting trial in prison, and the latter died in childbirth on Christmas Day. Both died in the year About Lolita. Awe and exhiliration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in Lolita, Nabokov’s most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
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